Performance management with ESS and no MSS??

Hello Gurus,
I have a very peculiar scenario regarding and ESS/MSS.
Let me first post our requirments:
We have implemented all modules of HR along with OM and now in the process of implementing Performance Management along with ESS only . I am stressing on ESS only here with NO MSS functionality.
Now my question is..is it really possible in the first place to have a performance management functionality without MSS and just with standalone ESS? If yes, what are the options that I have to configure the performance management system and the ESS system so that the workflows for Planning, Rating an employee, and Approvals regarding appraisals can be achieved??
Is it possible to assign an ESS role to the manager and then when the manager logs in ESS, he/she can go ahead with the performance management process and can check employees just like the way it happens in MSS?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Best Regards.
Karan.

Hi,
In your case check for HR administrator for final ratings and other things also check for r/3 desktop services.
but why they are not going for mss, om is in place right
regards
rafi

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Performance management with ONLY ESS and NO MSS??

Hello Gurus,
I have a very peculiar scenario regarding and ESS/MSS.
Let me first post our requirments:
We have implemented all modules of HR along with OM and now in the process of implementing Performance Management along with ESS only . I am stressing on ESS only here with NO MSS functionality.
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Thanks a lot for your time.
Best Regards.
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<Note>Long post, sorry.</Note>
First, thanks for the responses above. I'm impressed with the quality of thought put into them. (Do the forum rules allow me to offer rewards? :) One suggestion in particular made a big performance improvement, and I’m encouraged to hear of good performance in pure XML situations. Unfortunately, I think there is a real performance challenge in two use cases that are pertinent to the XML+relational subject of this post and probably increasingly common as XML DB usage increases:
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•     Let you know what I tried so far and the rationale for my approach to help expose flaws in my thinking and share what I have learned
•     Highlight remaining performance issues in hopes that we can solve them
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•     Receive a one-time feed of 500,000 employee records stored in about 10 relational tables, with a maximum join depth of 2 or 3. This is inherently a relational-to-XML process. One record/second is minimally acceptable, but 10 records/sec would be better.
•     Consolidate a few records (from different providers) for each employee into a single record. Given the data volume, we need to achieve a minimum rate of 10 records per second. This may be an XML-only process, or XML+relational if code lookups are done during consolidation.
•     Allow the records to be viewed and edited, with codes resolved into user-friendly descriptions. Since a user is sitting there, code lookups done when a record is viewed (vs. during consolidation) should not take more than 3 seconds total. We have about 20 code tables averaging a few hundred rows each, though one has 450,000 rows.
As requested earlier, I have included code at the end of this post for example tables and queries that accurately (but simply) replicate our real system.
Why we did and why:
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•     Used ora:view() for both tabular source records and lookup tables. We are not aware of any alternatives at this time. If it made sense, most code tables could be pre-converted into XML documents, but this seemed risky from a performance standpoint because the lookups use both code and date range constraints (the meaning of codes changes over time).
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SSN varchar2(20),
XMLREC sys.xmltype
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create index records_ssn on records(ssn);
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create table CODES (
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-- I think this took about a minute or two
DECLARE
ssn varchar2(20);
xmlrec xmltype;
i integer;
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<Root>
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<Element>
<Subelement1><Code>11</Code></Subelement1>
<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
</Element>
<Element>
<Subelement1><Code>11</Code></Subelement1>
<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
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<Element>
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<Subelement2><Code>21</Code></Subelement2>
<Subelement3><Code>31</Code></Subelement3>
</Element>
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end loop;
commit;
END;
-- Some code data like this (ignoring date ranges on codes):
DECLARE
description varchar2(100);
i integer;
BEGIN
description := 'This is the code description ';
for i IN 1..3000 loop
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commit;
end;
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The plan shows the nested loop access that slows things down.
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Next, we employed Release builds on Visual Studio Online. Before deployment, one would edit the appropriate Build Definition (whether it be for Test or Production by and filling in the code label (under the "Get Version" build property) that is to
be released. This would then get the appropriate code (by the label specified), build it, and release it to whatever cloud service is specified in the targeted Cloud Project profile (this is using the AzureContinuousDeployment.11.xaml template).
There is still a degree of manual intervention involved. Also, the fact that a version of code is built every time before it is released is not ideal (as far as I understand it would be better if it was packaged once).
Microsoft Release Management tools
look ideal for the job, but are not supported with Visual Studio Online.
Is there a better way of handling our releases?

/waves hand.. These are not the tools you seek. You are looking for continuous integration.
Although CI has the word continuous in there, it does not mean "all the time, every checkin". It can easily refer only to those bits you want to release - -and the way to tell the system which bits you want released is to merge them to a Releases
branch.
If you do this, not only do you get all the joy of controlled CI, but you guarantee what you release is exactly what is controlled in your SCM - under the Releases branch, preferably tagged or otherwise noted as a particular release. That means you can also
rollback to a previous release by simply reverting to a previous release in your SCM!
Of course you don't have to let it happen automatically, you can set it up to build 'continually' and then remove the check on the SCM to see if any changes have been committed. You can replace this with the manual build button.

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Thank you,
Roman

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Hello
I am presently looking to upgrade to Windows 7 and use InDesign CS4. I have had a play with installing postscript type 1 fonts using the windows font manager and it seems absoloutley average, but it worked (I think). I was wondering if you had any suggestions of what would be best practice in this setup.
Thanks for your time

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Thanks again

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I thought I understood memory management but now I'm getting some odd behavior and that's the only thing I can see that I might be doing incorrectly:
I have a synthesized NSString propery called displayText. At one point I attempt to set a label with the displayText property (label.text = [[note displayText]]). The first one works, but the second one does not:
[note setDisplayText:[[note fileName]]]; // - works
[note setDisplayText:[[self getCharacterInFileName:[[note fileName]]]]; // - does not work
And here is getCharacterInFileName:
// Given the fileName for the image, get the specific part of that fileName for the note letter
- (NSString *)getCharacterInFileName:(NSString *)fileName
NSRange range = {1,1};
NSString *characterInString = [[[NSString alloc]] initWithString:[[fileName substringWithRange:range]]];
return characterInString;
Is there some pointer mismanagement going on here that I'm missing?
Message was edited by: darkpegasus

Nevermind, I'm an idiot. I forgot to close an if/else block with a brace and it screwed everything up.

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Hello,
Do you know how to increase performance when using Cognos to request in BW ? Cognos seems to need a lot of RAM.
Thanks for your help
Catherine Bellec

In your original compile you don't use any optimisation flags, which tells the compiler to do minimal optimisation - you're basically telling the compiler that you are not interested in performance. Adding -g to this requests that you want maximal debug. So the compiler does even less optimisation, in order that the generated code more closely resembles the original source.
If you are interested in debug, then -g with no optimisation flags gives you the most debuggable code.
If you are interested in optimised code with debug, then try -O -g (or some other level of optimisation). The code will still be debuggable - you'll be able to map disassembly to lines of source, but some things may not be accessible.
If you are using C++, then -g will in SS12 switch off front-end inlining, so again you'll get some performance hit. So use -g0 to get inlining and debug.
HTH,
Darryl.

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I try to make this lab and when I declare a dynamic interface that is in the same subnet as the WCS ip address, the reliability between controler and WCS is lost.

I know that I should not put servers on the same vlan as wireless client but I just want to know if it is possible or if Cisco implemented something to avoid this to understand why my lab didn't work with this configuration.
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